As you may have heard, last week ISIS militants posted a video online showing American photojournalist James Foley, who had been covering the conflict in Syria as a freelancer for the Global Post, being beheaded by a masked jihadist with a British accent after ransom demands — $100 million Euros according to the CEO of the Global Post — were not met. Now comes word that British authorities believe the murdering jihadist to be Abdel Majed Abdel Bary of West London, better known as a rapper named “L Jinny,” while being known to hostages in the Middle East as “Jihadi John.”

I heard about this three days ago while my moms was watching Inside Edition and in that same report, a sound expert said that the voices were not a match. Considering both Daily Mail and Inside Edition are both dedicated to tabloid news, I’ll wait for a more reputable source.

He’s unfortunately not bad, and the warmup video is some pretty “conscious” style/inspirational style type of lyrics. But, Dizzee Rascal is comparable to Kendrick Lamar in the UK… well respected and very famous. This guy is more of your standard underground New York metaphorical interesting yet wildly boring rapper.

However, this guy is a bit too religious for my taste. I would never steal his album.

“Believe”?! What The FnCK?! Is that the same as “know for sure.” ? “That’s some crazy shit to go throwin your beliefs into without some proof to back it up…Oh they do. The Voicetron 2000 is actually a guy named Harold. Alright, that’ll do, then.”–Easter Bunny, circa sometime ago.

He’s unfortunately not bad, and the warmup video is some pretty “conscious” style/inspirational style type of lyrics. But, Dizzee Rascal is comparable to Kendrick Lamar in the UK… well respected and very famous.

Just listened to a song… Sadly it wasn’t bad at all… kid had skills. i’m really hoping he didn’t kill that journo.

The thing about this is we’ve spent generations making “terrorism” and Arab thing, when it’s an ideological extremist thing. dudes that blow up abortion clinics ain’t that different from those that’ll crash planes into building or those who stock up on AKs to wage war with the Obummer gubbmit or those who shoot up schools. it’s all terrorism.

But cuz we still can’t accept that, we’re shocked or confused when anyone who passes the paperbag test go jihad. I know folk in the UK who tell me how much the optics of a non-arab terrorist still throws most people.

the US has been attacked by its share of Brody’s, too. And every time it happens we’re always a little bit shocked.

If they thought hiphop was sophisticated, they’d blame hiphop here, but islam will take this L in the PR war.

Nobody ever heard of this L Jinny before this. This guy has a fake Vevo channel on Youtube with a few hundred subscribers and ONE video. They dug up some old mates of his to say he could’ve been huge. Some asshole who once spit a couple verses turns deranged religious zealot and suddenly the media labels him the “jihadi rapper”. Right.

If he kicked a ball around a few times (he probably did) would he have been a “jihadi soccer player”?

Probably not. But they find some videos of him rapping and he’s a rapper, strenuously tying hiphop to terrorism. It doesn’t surprise me from British tabloids, but to see a great site like TSS contribute to this shitheap of a story is depressing.